morality isn't made by the law, the laws must conform to morality. you've also have no dividization of any human being allowed among the jews. that's key because you go to any pagan, the -- king considered to be a god and chief priest so you have a fusion of religion and political power. that's the normal situation for most of human history. a fusion. united in one man. cesar was the chief priest and the emperor and also considered divine. christianity steps right in, following judaism, and makes it more intense. and one of the reasons it's made more intense is jesus ups the moral ante, making the case for what i call radical monogamy. judaism allowed for divorce, christianity, no. no doctors exceptor in particular circumstances. so the church was the overseer of this knew moriality, and when jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world, then he made the split complete because that meant that the king and the temporal rule were then to be kept distinct from the church and the kingdom of god. that depend in the middle ages and you have theoclearers acc